Brook High School - Talisman Yearbook (Brook, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY The records of the class are missing from the first to the fourth grade but this is as we remember it. Starting in the first grade were Carol Snyder, Bobby Lee, Robby Lee, Sandra Standish, Margaret Standish, Myrna Lyons, Larry Hafper, Dennis Dowty, Joyce Nichols, Bernard Honn, and Richa Lynn Wollin. In the first grade Mrs. Tanksley was our teacher. In the second grade Joyce Nichols, Dennis Dowty, Robby Lee, and Bobby Lee dropped out and Norman Curtis, Suzanne Shaffer, Herman Allis, John Holder. Ronnie Clark, John Hammon, Phyllis Strain, and Janice Flynn entered. Mrs. Pombert was our teacher. In the third grade Mrs. Le Grande was our teacher. Suzanne Shaffer and Herman Allis dropped out and Maxine Fowler entered. Ronnie Clark dropped out and Jim Plott, Alice McCarty, and Darryl Seibold entered in the fourth grade. Mrs. Le Grande was still our teacher. In the fifth grade Larry Harper, Maxine Fowler, and Phyllis Strain dropped out and Ila Phelps and Ronnie Strain entered. Mrs. Carter was our teacher. Mrs. Carter was also our teacher in the sixth grade. Ila Phelps and Janice Flynn dropped out and Jim Brunton, Esther Honn, Estel Honn, Norman Standish, and Margie Molott entered. In the seventh grade we were finally up stairs. Darryl Seibold, Richa Lynn Wollin, and Ronnie Strain dropped out and Shirley Rounds entered. John Holder, Sandra Standish, and Shirley Rounds dropped out and Sandra Clark, Betty Riegle, Kenny Wesly, Milly Wesly, Jim Huff, and Arema Henderson entered in the eighth grade. In the ninth grade Norman Standish, Margaret Standish, Arema Henderson, Jim Huff, Kenny Wesly. and Milly Wesly dropped out and Alvin Whaley, John Conn, Wayne Downs, Alice Deaduff, Jim Brewer, Rex Whaley, Geraldine Tichacek, Norman Wright. Elinor McCarty, Sue Jackson, Ron- nie Bartlett, and Jack Fenwick entered. During our tenth year Geralding Ticheack and Bernard Honn dropped out and no one entered. Our Junior Year was the year to start making money and we did this by selling magazines, putting on our play Act your Age , and one of the most joyous proms ever. No one entered and no one dropped out. All present and accounted for there are twenty-one members in the Senior Class. We are looking forward to the coming years and yet dreading to hear the familar chords of Pomp and Circumstance.

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CLASS WILL I, Carol Snyder, will my shyness to Tom Nelson and my ability to quit band and still get along with Mr. Egli to Mr. Loveless. I, Sue Jackson, will my ability to get along with teachers to Jerry Wilson and my seat in driver-s training to Roy Herath. I, John Conn, will my ability to get out of school to sell adds for the Aceonian to Don Antcliff. I, Jim Plott, will my curly hair to Everett Honn and Harvey Dodd and my dancing ability to Joyce Hamman. I, Norman Wright, will my ability to skip school to Jerry Wilson and my curly hair to Mr. Tanksley. I, Alice Deardurff, will my ability to get along with teachers to Greta Whaley, and my smile to Sandra Sainte. I, Myma Lyons, will my shortness to Ruth Ann Jackson, and my ability to be heard to Carol Wright. I. Alvin Whaley, will my ability to go out with girls to Dan Canady and my height to Dick Antcliff. I, Jim Brewer, will my love and bashfullness towards girls to Harvey Dodd. I, Alice McCarty, will my ability to get the car whenever I want it to Marcia Sell and my natural blonde hair to Laura Hamacher. I, Betty Riegle, will my ability to go out any night of the week to Paul Riegle and my ability to skip Study Hall to Greta Whaley. I, Wayne Downs, will my driving ability to Jefry Wilson, and my slim figure to Dan Canady. I, John Hammon, will my ability to always keep quiet to Larry lyons and my amazing speed to Dick Flash Hancock. I, Elinor McCarty, will my quietness and my love for the Rensselaer girls to Laura Hamacher. I, Margie Malott. will my natural red hair to Judy Johnston. I, Norman Curtis, will my ability to get along in shop class to Ted Hamacher. I, Ronnie Bartlett, will my friendship with the Rensselaer girls to Larry Lyons and my yell leading ability to Dottie Davis. I, Sandra Clark, will my yell-leading position to any girl or boy who has the courage to try out for it. I. Rex Whaley, will my basketball ability to Bernie Hiestand, and my famous saying to Don Antcliff, Go west, young man. go west. I, Jack Fenwick, will my flat top to Mr. Loveless, and my ability to keep within the speed limit to the Junior boys. I, Jim Brunton, will my ability to drive at noon to John Lyons, and to get arrested by Sergeant Loveless to Dick Hancock. We, Carol Snyder and Sue Jackson, will our ability to go steady with boys from Rensselaer without fighting to any Junior girl who thinks she can.

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LOOKING IN THE CRYSTAL BALL... Ronnie Bartlett is now head engineer with the Locked Aircraft Company and is supervising the design and construction of the SUPER-RB-I, an airship which completely runs from perpetual motion. Jim Brewer now owns 5000 acres of grazing land in Montana with 7000 head of prime steers just eating and getting fat. He has 7 Cadillac El Dorados; one for each day of the week. Jim Brunton now owns a big farm on the Sun and drives a big Ford. He has already retired at the age of 23. Sandra Clark has now settled down on the Murfitt farm with husband, Roy. Her part-time job as beautician will help out with their four future children. John Conn is now on a 1500 acre grain farm and doing quite well for himself. Norman Curtis now owns a chain of paint factories. His favorite pastime is riding from one factory to the other in his new Cadillac surrounded by several beautiful blondes. Alice Deardurff is now elementary teacher in New York City and is doing very well teach- ing first graders there. Wayne Downs is now running a Super Sonic 16 cylinder Studpacker in races all over the country and has had to buy a milk plant to supply his ten children with milk. Jack Fenwick is running a 1500 acre ranch on the moon but flies back to earth in his space- ship to visit Hollywood every once in awhile. John Hammon now runs a chain of 18 big garages, a big 10,000 acre ranch in Wyoming, along with 60 valuable acres of woods and forests up in Northern Minnesota; he seems to be doing well. lY